Abstract: An important aspect of localizing the user interface of any interactive application in a computer system is the translation of a large amount of text, usually English language text, consisting of words, phrases and sentences that occur as part of the interaction. As can be expected there is a lot of commonality in these text items across applications and even across platforms. Automated assistance in the generation/translation of these text items would enable and encourage more localization efforts. In this paper, the description of a multiple language such as English – Hindi, Hindi – English system that can be used to provide such automated assistance. It is a common desktop application which is simple to use, extensible and scalable to other languages as well.